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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 2095      2005 Mar 16 18.42UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
Hants, RG22 4PP,England.Telephone/FAX(01256)471074Int:+441256471074
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POSSIBLE NOVA IN PYXIS
G. Pojmanski, Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory, reports
the discovery, via ASAS (using a 65-mm aperture lens), of a possible 
nova located at:
RA 09h 18m 58s, DEC -29 42' 36" (2000).

V magnitudes: Mar 5.26 UT, [14.0; 11.19, 12.0; 14.26, 12.4; 15.00, 12.6; 
16.00, 12.8.

H. Haseda, Japan has reported on IAUC 8495, his independent discovery on 
Mar 16.45 at mag 13.3 (0.10-m twin patrol camera), with the following 
position end figures by K. Itagaki (Teppo-cho,
Yamagata, Japan, 0.60-m reflector) from his own unfiltered CCD image 
taken on Mar. 16.451:  58s.50, 37".0 (red mag 12.8).

Hitoshi Yamaoka, Japan, adds that the position is close to the northern 
component (mag 18) of a double star on the digitised sky surveys.

Guy M Hurst